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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (146624)5/20/2001 1:03:05 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
California Unplugged

Environmentalists dreamed of soft power. The state woke up in the dark.

by William Tucker

spectator.org

Following this "soft path" would mean: 1)
making spectacular but achievable gains in energy conservation, 2) building
small "co-generation" plants that produced both electricity and steam for
industrial heat, and 3) setting up a "transitional" period in which fossil fuels
would be employed until replaced by "soft" technologies such as solar, wind,
and small hydro. By 2025, we could be living in Energy Utopia -- a world
running entirely on renewable resources.

Ideas have consequences. This author contends the problem started in the Jerry Brown era of CA government when the dream was to de-centralize power generation with boutique alternates. Jerry and Gray Davis, his chief of staff took their cues from the Friends of the Dirt policy book.
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